Sheffield Newswire Archive

A request for people who are against the welfare reform bill to discuss the issue for a radio package.

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Early morning on September 5th security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take thirty two Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the thirty two were taken to RAF Brize Norton. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. In response, one man slit his throat and up to fourteen others took overdoses or cut themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid "removal". One eye witness described the scene at the holding area at the airport as "carnage with blood on the walls".(1) The Kurds knew the danger of returning to Iraq. They had fled the country years before because of that danger.

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Advanced Metal Research and Technology

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come and support the event challenging the Govts Welfare Reform Bill,
we need everyone to raise this issue,

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Shell Gas offices near Chesterfield were occupied today, while a simultaneous noise demo outside woke up Shell staff to our feelings about the multinational’s abuse of the Rossport people and their environment.

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Stuart White of Jesus College Oxford will be giving a talk about one of the best known anarchist writers of recent years - Colin Ward. The talk is part of the CSSGJ open seminar series. All welcome!

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Activists in Nottinghamshire dropped banners off several M1 bridges as part of a co-ordinated banner drop along the length of the M1 to object to plans to widen it.

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Banners were unfurled across M1 motorway bridges from Luton to Sheffield today as the Stern report on climate change was published. The M1 is due to be widened from Luton to Leeds, at a cost to the tax payer of £3.74 billion. The widening will allow traffic to grow and cause more CO2 emissions. Road transport is currently 21 per cent of UK emissions and rises every year.

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Protestors from Luton, Nottingham, Luton, Derby and Sheffield today dropped banners with slogans such as "Stop Climate Change" and "More Cars = More CO2" from bridges over the M1 motorway today in protest at the governments plans to widen 115 miles of the road to 4 lanes in both direction.

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Two speakers from Rossport will be in Manchester on 2nd November. Also here are pictures from the solidarity demo on 26th October at Manchester University.

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BNP Poll 26.2% in Rotherham by election

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G8 planning and talks, climate camp

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The true mentality of former Home Secretary David Blunket and his political supporters within the government was chillingly revealed in October of this year with the revelation that he had ordered an ex-Director General of the prison system to sanction the machine gunning of rioting prisoners at Lincoln jail four years ago.

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You are cordially invited to the NORTHERN ECO-ACTION GATHERING taking place on
Saturday 11 November from 10.30-6pm in the BRADFORD RESOURCE CENTRE followed by
food and socialising in the 1 in 12 social centre. For practical details see below and check our website  http://www.eco-action.org/northern/
Please pass this invite on!

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Meeting this Sunday Oct 29th 2pm-4pm

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Video of a talk by Craig Murray [former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan], Legality, Morality and the War on Terror, recorded at Sheffield Hallam University on 9th October 2006.

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Bass Bar & LMHR Sheffield Presents:
Jerry Dammers DJ set
Thursday November 2nd

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In October of 2001, a little over a month after 9/11, I wrote an article titled The Background is Oil. The hypothesis laid out in this article was that the 2000 US presidential election resulted in a coup of neocons and oil interests who had taken control of the US in order to prepare for the coming peak and decline of world oil production. Furthermore, this coup engineered the 9/11 terrorist attacks to further their own interests.

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Hello, the word has got out: The Moles are Rising.

You will no doubt know where we are planning to open the next space, please try to keep it word of mouth no text or email of the location, Babylon is watching did you not know. Putting it another way, watch what you watch, be careful what you hear.. from the excellent Hoodz Underground, raw Sheffield Hip Hop whom by the way never played Matilda but it we hope to have them on board with the new space.

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These are some of the documentaries with a strong political content. Of course there's more to see on our website  https://sheffdocfest.com. Tickets are £5, £4 cons. and available at the Showroom.

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